joyful - Story 80818 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He practically skipped down the sidewalk, the brisk November air invigorated him. He’d just received the acceptance letter to his dream university. It was a victory, a huge one. He needed to celebrate.

He decided to go ice skating. He hadn't been in years. The wind whipped at his face, the ice gleamed, and a thrill coursed through him.

He was waiting in line to get his skates when he saw him. It was David, the kid who had made his life a nightmare. David, now "Dr. David Chen, Marriage and Family Therapist." He felt a strange lightness, as though he could float.

Emotion: joyful

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.96 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.67

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion joyful. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 joyful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the joyful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the joyful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`la`	0.615
`de`	0.600
`!`	0.572
`excitedly`	0.552
`enthusi`	0.533

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.893
`ness`	-0.513
`😞`	-0.470
`😣`	-0.337
`L`	-0.334